It should not come as much of a surprise to anyone passingly familiar with non-Moldbuggist American history that in a 1969 survey of professors, Jews reported themselves more leftist in parental background, personal identification, voting behavior, and their children's activism than Protestants.

The extent to which the political background of Jewish academics
differs from that of others may be seen in the responses to the Carnegie
survey question: "What were your father's politics while you were grow-
ing up?" Forty-six per cent of the Jews, as contrasted to 19 per cent
of the Catholics and but 14 per cent of the Protestant majority, reported
fathers who were "left" or "liberal" in their views. Conversely, less than
20 per cent of the Jewish professors had "conservative" fathers, while
63 per cent of the Protestant academics indicated such a background
(Table 19).

Family political-intellectual tradition affects the behavior of the chil-
dren of academics. Among those faculty with children of college age, a
majority (56 per cent) of the Jews report that their children have "been
active in civil rights, anti-Vietnam, or other demonstrations," as con-
trasted with little more than one-fifth (22 per cent) of the Gentile pro-
fessors. The reason, of course, is that the children of liberal academics
participate much, much more in demonstrations than children of con-
servative academics, and Jewish faculty are disproportionately liberal.
That the correlation is between parental politics and participation is made
clear by Table 20, which shows that 68 per cent of the left faculty having
children of the right age—regardless of religion—said their children
had been active in demonstrations, compared to just 4 per cent of the
strongly conservative professors.

The contribution of faculty of Jewish background to liberal and left
political groups has been stressed in a number of surveys preceding
our own. Almost all earlier studies found that close to 90 per cent of
Jewish academics regularly voted Democratic in presidential elections. 45
Jewish faculty also were found to contribute heavily to the backing of
leftist third parties. Thus, according to a 1948 study, fully 30 per cent
of the Jewish professors voted for Henry Wallace. 46 The same proclivity
can be seen in Britain, where a faculty opinion study reported that the
Jews were "the most left-wing of all." 47 Recent studies of American
college professors conclude that Jews have been much more heavily
opposed to the Vietnam war, and stronger supporters of student activism,
than their Gentile colleagues. 48

The Carnegie Commission's national survey yielded the same strong
relationships. The Jewish faculty were much more inclined to identify
their politics as "left" or "liberal" than Protestants and Catholics (Table
21 ). 49 Jews contributed disproportionately to the small group who
backed left-wing third party presidential candidates in 1968; they were
much more likely to have been for the nomination of Eugene McCarthy
than of Hubert Humphrey at the Democratic convention, and gave
Richard Nixon an exceptionally low vote in the election. In 1964 only
2 per cent of the Jewish faculty voted for Barry Goldwater, compared
to 24 per cent of those of Protestant parentage (Tables 22, 23, and 24).

The Jews, as a group, took much more liberal positions on such issues
as the use of force at the Chicago Democratic convention in 1968, the
Vietnam war, student activism, the treatment of blacks in both the
university and the larger society, and the legalization of marijuana
(Tables 25, 26 and 27). The gap between Jews and Christians on these
issues is very large, while among Christians, Protestants are usually
slightly more conservative than Catholics. For example, 59 per cent of
the Jews gave general approval to "the emergence of radical student
activism in recent years," compared to 44 per cent of the Catholics and
40 per cent of the Protestants. The proportion of Jews favoring immediate
United States withdrawal from Vietnam is twice that of non-Jews. Three-
fifths of the Jews favored the legalization of marijuana (59 per cent),
compared to 33 per cent of the Catholics and 29 per cent of the Protestants.

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Duarte et al. pointed out in their recent Behavioral and Brain Sciences target article that social science used to be politically more diverse. I wonder if the elimination of political diversity in academia is simply a consequence of its Judaization.

Efforts to police discourse on race, IQ, sociobiology, etc., certainly seem to have been disproportionately Jewish ("Montagu", Lewontin, Kamin, Rose, Gould, etc.). But I'm sure self-selection and left-wing bias have also led to less ideological diversity among non-Jews in social science and academia in general.

Hughgabe,

When did I say I think 'the problem is that jews are "liberals"'? Ethnic conflict exists and will always exist because groups do not share identical interests. In the time and place we actually live, one reflection of ethnic conflict is disproportionate Jewish support for left-wing politics.

Did you not just get through ranting at me for a supposed lack of particularism a few threads back? Now you're complaining I have too much partiality to my own people. You recently accused me of a lack of introspection, but it's clear you're in need of some yourself. You're not interested in arguing rationally or even being consistent; you're interested in striking poses that you think set you apart as having special insight.

"until the last 300-400 years NW Europeans were the niggers of Europe."

Even if this were true, which it's not, it would make no difference. NW Europeans are still my people, and I still would like to see them continue to exist.

The restrictionists actually went out of their way to deny that they believed they were racially superior to other groups. The Congressional Record reports Representative William N. Vaile of Colorado, one of the most prominent restrictionists:

“Let me emphasize here that the restrictionists of Congress do not claim that the `Nordic` race, or even the Anglo-Saxon race, is the best race in the world. Let us concede, in all fairness that the Czech is a more sturdy laborer…that the Jew is the best businessman in the world, and that the Italian has…a spiritual exaltation and an artistic creative sense which the Nordic rarely attains. Nordics need not be vain about their own qualifications. It well behooves them to be humble.

“What we do claim is that the northern European and particularly Anglo-Saxons made this country. Oh, yes; the others helped. But… [t]hey came to this country because it was already made as an Anglo-Saxon commonwealth. They added to it, they often enriched it, but they did not make it, and they have not yet greatly changed it.

“We are determined that they shall not…It is a good country. It suits us. And what we assert is that we are not going to surrender it to somebody else or allow other people, no matter what their merits, to make it something different. If there is any changing to be done, we will do it ourselves.” [Cong. Rec., April 8, 1924, 5922]

The hypothetical White Protestant professoriate does seem to reflect the USA's overall actual result, except on one metric: Protestant professors only said they voted for George Wallace at a rate of 1.4% (presumably with such a huge sample size the margin of error was very small). The overall actual result was 13.5% for Wallace.

A few possibilities: (1) Professors were disproportionately from outside the South. (2) Disproportionately more universities outside the South. (3) White professors who actually voted for Wallace didn't admit to it in the survey (the Bradley Effect)

But the main explanation must be: (4) The White racialist presence in the U.S. professoriate, probably once significant if not necessarily explicit, had cratered into irrelevance by 1969, especially among the young professors.

"until the last 300-400 years NW Europeans were the niggers of Europe. "

Wrong, see Michael H. Hart's Understanding Human History. It's true that during ancient greece' time, the slavs and germanic people were primitive. But their IQs weren't low, they already had a higher native intelligence than, say, arabs.